The popular Los Angeles-based soft serve chain known as SomiSomi Soft Serve & Taiyaki will be opening its first location in Long Beach thanks to a newly minted lease in the tiny space next to Ramen Hub in Bixby Knolls.

What some might have assumed was a POW! WOW! Long Beach mural going up a week early was actually a unique project taken on by the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association to bring Seattle-based artist Peter Robinson to town.